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I am looking for motivated interns and PhD students. If you are interested in working in security and privacy problems related to social computing and online advertising drop me an email with a brief statement of interest and a CV.

News

Nov. 6 2018

Our paper was accepted to NDSS'19! Great job Thanos and Marcio!

Oct. 23 2018

Our paper was accepted to FAT*'19! Congrats everyone!

July 27 2018

I will be in matternity leave until the end of the year, we are expecting our second boy! I will probably be more than fashionably late answering emails.

My project PRoTect was funded by the ANR in the JCJC program. I am looking for motivated interns and PhD students!

July 2016

Starting October 2017 I will be a permanent CNRS researcher in the LIG lab in Grenoble.

June 9 2016

Patrick Loiseau (EURECOM) and I have been awarded a research grant from the Data Transparency lab for our project “TranspAd: A Collaborative Tool to Bring Transparency to Targeted Advertising”.

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in security and privacy aspects of social computing systems (online systems that provide services to people and that have at their core the data produced by them: Twitter, Amazon, Netflix). In my projects I try to understand problems in current systems trough data collection and data mining (measurement and analysis) and propose better solutions (systems design and implementation, data mining algorithms).

My research is motivated by the fact that most people use on a daily basis different social computing systems to perform numerous activities.
While the value of these systems is undeniably attested by their global scale adoption, they also bring new challenges and threats for users. My current research projects focus on the following three aspects:

Privacy: measure and control the image users leave online (e.g., what data a potential employer could mine about me online?)

Transparency: understand the consequences of users's actions on the services they receive (e.g., why am I being targeted with this particular ad?)

Trust: estimate the trustworthiness of users and content online (e.g., is this review fake or real?)

Personal

Patrick Loiseau is my wonderful husband. I am very lucky that we can work together and do science over a glass of wine.
Update 1: ... after our son goes to bed .
Update 2: This statement is no longer true ... we just crash!